Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
2 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |
3 | His body clock free-ran so that on occasions he was the victim of a clash between an internal cause — which thought it was night and wanted him to sleep — and an external cause , society — which required him to work in the ( real ) daytime . |
4 | It was that independence which enabled us to participate in the Gulf war and to initiate the Falklands conflict without having to secure the agreement of our 11 Community colleagues . |
5 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
6 | Later this evening , about 11 p.m. , the Germans mounted a bombardment of our positions which convinced us sheltering in the slit trenches that the enemy were still in front of us in strength and were telling us that they intended to stay there . |
7 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
8 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
9 | What did they put in the coffee that made it such a diuretic ? |
10 | What did they say in the Owsla ? |
11 | What did they have in the house ? |
12 | What did they come in the day ? |
13 | What did I get in the talk in eighteen minutes ? |
14 | ‘ What did you do in the war , then , daddy ? ’ they asked me when I returned . |
15 | The inevitable question , ‘ What did you do in the hols ? ’ would be greeted with a list of the films I had seen , and the dances and point-to-points I had been to , whereas in fact I was not allowed to go to the cinema ( perhaps for financial reasons ) , had never been to a dance in my life , and did n't even know what a point-to-point was . |
16 | The Captain filled in the space where Maxwell might have thought he had to apologize , and then asked him quickly : ‘ What did you do in the north of Italy in January ? |
17 | A clear division was to be made then , with all who served their country being enfranchised and all who refused being disfranchised , in both cases irrespective of age or other considerations ; the war was to be the test and the policy was to be " What did you do in the war , Daddy ? " |
18 | I drew the diagram and they were positively correlated Now , you do n't have to know that proof but if you ever wonder where it comes from or you wan na tell your grandchildren one day Mummy , what did you do in the stats classes ? |
19 | What were they u What did you do in the daytime then ? |
20 | What did you do in the holiday |
21 | And what did you find in the caves ? |
22 | ‘ And what did you learn in the village ? ’ |
23 | What did you put in the wine ? ’ |
24 | what did you get in the , in the table assess yesterday ? |
25 | what did you get in the table assess yesterday ? |
26 | what did you get in the table assess yesterday ? |
27 | ‘ What did you see in the paper ? ’ asked Bobbie . |
28 | What did he sit in the cold then ? |